Teacher tackles gunman at school

[Immortalfire]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_colo_school_shooting

Holy crap...this school is close to Columbine

LITTLETON, Colo. – The gunman was walking through a middle school parking lot and taking shots at students with a hunting rifle as terrified teenagers ran for their lives. He had just wounded two students and seemed ready to unleash more violence when a math teacher named David Benke sprung into action.

Benke confronted the 32-year-old gunman, tackled him and pinned him to the ground with the help of another teacher, stopping what could have been a much more violent encounter in a city all too familiar with tragic school shootings. The shooting occurred less than three miles from where the Columbine High School massacre happened nearly 11 years ago.

"Unfortunately he got another round off before I could grab him," Benke said. "He figured out that he wasn't going to be able to get another round chambered before I got to him so he dropped the gun and then we were kind of struggling around trying to get him subdued."

The two students survived Tuesday's shooting and one remained hospitalized.

Good man

 

[bgates87]

Just saw this on TV, that teacher is a badass. Glad to hear the kids are expected to be alright. Also I can't believe it's been over 10 years since Columbine.

 

[Paroxysm]

Props to the Teacher. The shooter has a name that sounds like a hockey stick. "Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood".

 

[E-Man]

This guy is a real hero. He deserves any good props and rewards that are coming his way. Thank goodness he did what he did.

 

[Raiden]

This teacher is as much a hero as that pilot who safely landed those passengers on the Hudson River over a year ago. Kudos to him (and the other teacher who helped him subdue the gunman)! Thank goodness brave individuals like him helped averted another deadly school shooting.

 

[Alex The Great]

Get this dude a medal

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Awesome.

 

[Rob Lobo]

This is definitely the coolest news I've heard today. What a hero

 

[SuperFerret]

Read about this earlier. Glad to hear that the kids will be okay.

 

[Dark Guardian]

Like Ra's said: "The training is nothing, the will is everything...The will to act."

 

[DarkReflections]

Whoa talk about a badass and heroic teacher. Maybe the day will come when we can have a group like the Minute Men or the Crimebusters, with people like this in the world.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Wow, that teacher is one badass teacher.

 

[Harls]

That's wonderful what he did... most people would have certainly ran or hid with the kids, but this guy (and the other teacher) decided to take him down. The world would be a better place if there were more "good citizens", even if not to this extreme.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Time to be the bad guy!

I think what he did was heroic and foolish. He should've spent his effort getting students to safety instead of tackling the guy. I'm certainly glad that it didn't escalate and this time his heroism paid off, but usually that's not the case.

 

[E-Man]

Time to be the bad guy!

I think what he did was heroic and foolish. He should've spent his effort getting students to safety instead of tackling the guy. I'm certainly glad that it didn't escalate and this time his heroism paid off, but usually that's not the case.

Why I oughta!!!

 

[B]

The teacher is Batman

 

[Mike_D202]

Dramatic reinactment of the incident:

 

[Wolfwood]

Wow, a math teacher, that's pretty surprising. All my math teachers were always wimpy little guys. The guys a badass though, good for him.

 

[The Question]

Time to be the bad guy!

I think what he did was heroic and foolish. He should've spent his effort getting students to safety instead of tackling the guy. I'm certainly glad that it didn't escalate and this time his heroism paid off, but usually that's not the case.

I find it bothersome that you're using the word heroism as a bad thing.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I find it bothersome that you're using the word heroism as a bad thing.

Heroism isn't a bad thing at all, but when people think that tackling the bad guy is being a hero they are misguided. Would he not have been just as much of a hero if he simply helped students get out of harms way and guided them to safety?

The problem is that that type of "take matters into my own hands" heroism usually ends up getting people hurt or worse. There's nothing wrong with being a hero, but you have to be extremely careful in situations with someone who is armed and dangerous.

History could've just as easily recorded him as just another victim or worse might have even recorded him as the cause of more attacks on other students.

 

[SuperFerret]

But it didn't, so it's all good. History doesn't care about the what ifs.

Also, why are they still parading the whole Columbine thing out for this. The only things that this situation and Columbine have in common is a school, a gun and Colorado.

 

[danoyse]

Heroism isn't a bad thing at all, but when people think that tackling the bad guy is being a hero they are misguided. Would he not have been just as much of a hero if he simply helped students get out of harms way and guided them to safety?

But if he had the opportunity to stop him, why not do it?

You're talking in 'what ifs' here, but the reality is he stopped a bad situation from becoming much worse.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

Time to be the bad guy!

I think what he did was heroic and foolish. He should've spent his effort getting students to safety instead of tackling the guy. I'm certainly glad that it didn't escalate and this time his heroism paid off, but usually that's not the case.

well the kid wasn't smart, you can't really go on a CQ massacre with a hunting rifle. The only successful one i can think of is UT, but that long distance & before SWAT.

 

[SuperFerret]

What kid? Two kids were shot, but the gun man and the teacher were in their thirties.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

What kid? Two kids were shot, but the gun man and the teacher were in their thirties.

meant to say "the cat wasn't smart"